HomeMy WebLinkAbout06-28-05Board’s Official Business
Highlights from Monday's Commissioner Meeting June 28, 2005
PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: The following
comments were made: a member of the
County’s Lodging Tax Advisory Committee
read two letters into the record regarding
concerns about the action taken by the
majority of the Commissioners to give
$20,000 of LTAC funds to Fort Worden State
Park to subsidize parking fees; the funding
was to go to the Gateway Visitor Center for
improvements such as running water,
restrooms instead of Sanicans, and
resurfacing the parking lot; the County
shouldn’t be subsidizing State Park
operations and especially not a Fort Worden
located within the incorporated part of the
County; the LTAC voted unanimously against
the Fort Worden Parking fee request in 2004
and in 2005 and the Commissioners were
given their recommendation and didn’t listen
to them; Port Townsend received $60,000 in
lodging tax revenue last year and they only
allocated $5,000 for the Fort Worden State
Park parking fees; subsidizing parking fees at
the State park is not a valid use of lodging tax
revenue; lodging tax revenue raised in the
unincorporated area of the County should be
used in that area; the Commissioners only
allocated $20,000 for the total operation of
the East Olympic Forest Visitor Center in
Quilcene for the entire year; and a request
that the Commissioners invite a
representative from the State DOR for a
workshop on the proper use of LTAC funds;
there seems to be an unwritten policy that
says “what’s good for Port Townsend is good
for the County” and it should be “what’s good
for the UGA is good for the County”;
subsidizing parking fees at Fort Worden
encourages people to drive cars instead of
using an alternative means of transportation
such as the Park and Ride and transit; there
has been talk about delaying the UGA sewer
system project to do more studies and this
could affect the proposed South Seven
Senior Village project; in the General Sewer
Plan a reference to North Irondale was
omitted and all areas need to be included;
and there are many funding sources that are
willing to award grants and low interest loans
for low income and senior housing.
CONSENT AGENDA: All of the items were
approved.
RESOLUTION: Temporary Restriction of Traffic
on Old Tarboo Road for Improvements to Old
Tarboo Road Bridge
HEARING NOTICE: Authorization To Increase
the Current $10 Surcharge on Superior Court
Cases Filed Under Title 26 RCW (Excluding
RCW 26.50 Et Seq), and Add New Fees for the
Courthouse Facilitator Program; Hearing
Scheduled for Monday, July 11, 2005 at 10:05
a.m.
CALL FOR BIDS: Construction of Larry Scott
Memorial Trail, Segment 3 (Cape George
Trailhead); Bids Accepted Until 10:00 a.m., July
18, 2005 and Opened and Read Publicly Shortly
Thereafter in the Commissioner’s Chamber
5 AGREEMENTS: 1) Purchase and Install a
New Heavy-Duty Closed-Door Horizontal Baler
at the Waste Management Recycle Facility with
GK Industrial Refuse Systems; 2) Medical
Services Monitoring at the Jefferson County Jail
with Dr. Rebecca Bay; 3) General Terms and
Conditions on Health Contracts with State
DSHS; 4) Amendment to Increase Funding for a
Big Brothers/Big Sisters Program in Jefferson
County with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of King and
Pierce Counties; 5) Amendment to Increase
Funding for Biennial Agreement for
Developmental Disability Services with State
DSHS; and, 6) Bridge Consortium, Ryan White
Title II Funding for HIV/AIDS Case Management
Services with Kitsap County Health District
FINAL PLAT APPROVAL: Vahalla Short Plat to
Divide 18.54 Acres into Two Residential Lots;
Located off of Larson Lake Road; Jan and
Michael Berman, Applicants
LETTER TO LEGISLATORS: Requesting
Modification of Language in RCW 36.33A.040,
Rates for Equipment Rental to Representative
Lynn Kessler, Representative Jim Buck and
Senator Jim Hargrove
ESTABLISHING AN OPEN BURNING
PROGRAM: At the request of the Fire Chiefs
Association, the Board approved a resolution
effective immediately establishing a regulatory
program on open burning throughout the
County.